The first library of the Bowling Green Normal College was established in 1914 in the basement of a nearby Methodist Church, with its first professional librarian hired in 1915.

In 1982, the completed building was named in honor of William Travers Jerome III, the sixth president of Bowling Green State University.

It features unique non-objective murals on its east and west facades, created by Don Drumm, an artist in residence during the 1960s.

[12] Librarians also select congressional materials, including hearings, reports, documents, floor debates, bills and public laws, and studies.

[13] The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) supports the undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in the College of Education and Human Development and other BGSU education-related areas by maintaining a collection of high-quality preschool through grade twelve materials reflecting innovation in teaching practices and standards-based instruction.

The score collection includes solos, orchestral studies, exercise books, and chamber music for ensembles from two to ten parts.

All masters' theses In addition, all documents written by graduate students in the College of Musical Arts are housed in the collection.

Established in 1967 for the scholarly study of popular music, the Bill Schurk Sound Archives serves campus patrons and researchers from around the world.

Users can also find popular reference and informational materials (self-help and how-to books, for example) in the library's collections.

In addition to many rare hardcover and paperback books and magazines, the Browne Popular Culture Library houses archival and special collections, including literary manuscripts and movie and television scripts.

Non-traditional library resources such as dime novels, story papers and nickel weeklies, pulp magazines, fanzines and other amateur publications, comic books and graphic novels, and posters, postcards, greeting cards, mail-order catalogs, and travel brochures, comprise some of the library's most unusual collections.

The primary mission of the CAC is to actively acquire, preserve, and make accessible to researchers historical materials in Northwest Ohio.

Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and make historical materials documenting the Great Lakes region and connecting waterways available to scholars, students, and the public.

The HCGL's collections include materials related to the commercial shipping, shipbuilding, navigation, maritime law, commercial fishing, shipwrecks, yachting, labor history, popular literature, freshwater ecology, maritime culture, and the history of Great Lakes ports.